Lords of Montpellier
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The following is a list of lords of Montpellier
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Montpellier
-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....
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- William I of MontpellierWilliam I of MontpellierWilliam I or Guilhem I was the founder of the dynasty which bears his name: the Guilhems, Lords of Montpellier. He received his fief of Monspestularius on 26 November 986 from Bernard, Count of Mauguio, with the permission of Ricuin, Bishop of Maguelone....
26 November 986–1019 - William II of Montpellier 1019–1025
- William III of MontpellierWilliam III of MontpellierWilliam III was the Lord of Montpellier from 1025 until his death in 1058. He was the son of William II and husband of Beliardis. His son and successor was William IV. He is the last of the "shadowy" Guilhems, none of whose charters are conserved in the family cartulary, the Liber instrumentorum...
1025–1058 - William IV of MontpellierWilliam IV of MontpellierWilliam IV was the Lord of Montpellier from 1058 until his death in 1068. He was the son of William III and Beliardis. He was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Raymond I, Count of Melgueil. He is the first of his dynasty with charters preserved in the family cartulary, the Liber instrumentorum...
1058–1068 - William V of MontpellierWilliam V of MontpellierWilliam V was the Lord of Montpellier from an early age until his death. He was the son of Bernard William IV.Soon after his father's death, his mother, Ermengarde, quit Montpellier to marry the Lord of Anduze...
1090–1121 - William VI of MontpellierWilliam VI of MontpellierWilliam VI or Guillem VI was the eldest son of William V and his wife Ermessende, daughter of Count Peter II of Melgueil. William succeeded his father in the lordship of Montpellier in 1121, while still a minor, under his mother's guardianship...
1121–1149 - William VII of MontpellierWilliam VII of MontpellierWilliam VII of Montpellier was the eldest son of William VI and of his wife Sibylle.Aged around 15, he inherited the lordship of Montpellier from his father in 1146 under the tutelage of his grandmother, Ermessende of Melgueil...
1149–c. 1172 - William VIII of MontpellierWilliam VIII of MontpellierWilliam VIII of Montpellier was Lord of Montpellier, the son of William VII.He married Eudoxie or Eudokia Komnene, grand-niece of the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. A condition of the marriage was that the firstborn child, boy or girl, would succeed to the lordship of Montpellier on...
c. 1172–1202 - William IX of Montpellier 1202–1204
- Marie of MontpellierMarie of MontpellierMarie of Montpellier , was by birth heiress and later Sovereign Lady of Montpellier and by her three marriages Viscountess of Marseille, Countess of Comminges and Queen of Aragon....
1204–1213- Peter II of AragonPeter II of AragonPeter II the Catholic was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1196 to 1213.He was the son of Alfonso II of Aragon and Sancha of Castile...
- Peter II of Aragon
- James I of AragonJames I of AragonJames I the Conqueror was the King of Aragon, Count of Barcelona, and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276...
1213–1276 - James II of MajorcaJames II of MajorcaJames II was King of Majorca and Lord of Montpellier from 1276 until his death. He was the second son of James I of Aragon and his wife Violant, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary...
1276–1311 - Sancho of Majorca 1311–1324
- James III of MajorcaJames III of MajorcaJames III , called the Rash or the Unfortunate, son of Ferdinand of Majorca and Isabelle de Sabran, heiress of Principality of Achaea, was the King of Majorca from 1324 to 1344. He was the last independent king of Majorca of the House of Barcelona.James was born at Catania...
1324–1344